Description
Introduction
Do you have the career opportunities as a RN Sepsis Stroke Coordinator you want in your current role We invest in what matters most to nurses like you – at home, at work, and at every stage in your career. We have an exciting opportunity for you to join LewisGale Hospital Pulaski which is a part of the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.
Do you want to work where you have a voice Nurses are at the forefront of our commitment to the care and improvement of human life. At HCA Healthcare, there are many ways for nurses to have a voice through professional practice councils, advisory councils, vital voices surveys, and units of distinction. We learn from our multi-generational nursing family. We partner with our Nurses at LewisGale Hospital Pulaski!
Schedule: Full Time Days, 8-hour shifts, Monday-Friday
Job Summary and Qualifications
Coordinate all systems related to acute stroke care and sepsis care delivery. Monitor quality of care issues, and pathways for stroke and sepsis care management, including patient education. Act as clinical liaison between physicians, clinical coordinators and administrative staff. Provide outreach to EMS and the community at large in order to enhance recognition and treatment of acute stroke and sepsis.
• Coordinates the Stroke and Sepsis programs to ensure early goal directed therapy and aggressive management of the patients with acute stroke and sepsis.
• Promotes and fosters continued growth and development of Primary Stroke Center certification and Sepsis certification.
• Supports and collaborates with other leaders to lead the Stroke Program Committee and the Sepsis Committee.
• Coordinates care of the acute stroke patient (CVA), TIA (transient ischemic attack) patients, and sepsis patients across the continuum of care by collaborating with appropriate hospital departments and hospital and medical staff.
• Researches best practices and clinical practice guidelines, and facilitates their inclusion in development/updates of CVA/TIA/sepsis patient care protocols.
• Oversees implementation and adherence to established treatment protocols and clinical trial protocols, ensuring regulatory compliance of the Primary Stroke Center and Sepsis certifications.
• Collaborates with the stroke and sepsis teams to develop standardized patient teaching materials.
• Collaborates with community partners and outreach to ensure community awareness of stroke signs and symptoms through education and health screening opportunities.
• Develops and implements, through the Education Department, a plan to meet identified education needs of employees involved in the acute stroke and sepsis continuums of care.
• Serves as a resource to hospital and medical staff for baseline/functional measurements, stroke and treatment protocols, primary stroke center, current research, and best practice related to stroke.
• Serves as a resource to nurses, physicians, and other members of the healthcare team on the sepsis program and best clinical practices.
• Oversee data collection and abstraction processes related to stroke and sepsis programs. Review and analyze clinical data and present the data in an understandable and meaningful context to staff and physicians.
What qualifications you will need:
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 180 days of employment start date
- Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
- (RN) Registered Nurse license in State of Virginia or active RN Compact State license required
- Bachelors Degree in Nursing BSN required
- Intensive Care/Emergency Department clinical experience preferred
- Background in Sepsis care preferred
- RN experience with previous teaching or quality improvement experience in a hospital setting preferred
Benefits
LewisGale Hospital Pulaski, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
"Nurses play a pivotal role and are the backbone of healthcare delivery. At HCA Healthcare, we are dedicated to ensuring nurses have necessary tools and resources to provide world-class patient care, advocating for the profession and helping to shape the future of nursing."
Sammie Mosier, DHA, MA, BSN, NE-BC
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive, HCA Healthcare
LewisGale Hospital Pulaski has provided quality healthcare services since 1915. We are located in Pulaski, Virginia. We give patient's access to trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 140+ bed hospital is one of the leading acute care facilities in Southwest Virginia and New River Valley. As a member of the LewisGale Regional Health System network, we provide a full scope of healthcare services. Our hospital is home to the LewisGale Regional Cancer Center Pulaski. The first medical facility in the region to provide a radioactive seed implant procedure which is a radiation therapy alternative for treating breast and prostate cancer. Our accreditation from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer comes with many commendations for our program of service and patient care. We specialize in orthopedics and are an accredited chest pain center.
At LewisGale Hospital Pulaski, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
LewisGale Hospital Pulaski has provided quality healthcare services since 1915, giving patient's access to highly-trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 140+ bed hospital is one of the leading acute care facilities in Southwest Virginia and New River Valley. As a member of the LewisGale Regional Health System network, we provide a full scope of healthcare services from our facilities located in Pulaski, Virginia. Our hospital is also home to the LewisGale Regional Cancer Center Pulaski – the first medical facility in the region to provide a radioactive seed implant procedure -- a radiation therapy alternative for treating breast and prostate cancer. Our accreditation from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer comes with numerous commendations for our program of service and patient care. We also specialize in orthopedics and are an accredited chest pain center.
At LewisGale Hospital Pulaski, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our RN Sepsis Stroke Coordinator opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.